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[–] UnderpantsWeevil -3 points 1 month ago

A few folks I know switched

All of that is just cope, though. Speed running denialism to acceptance. The bottom line is that - individually - there's nothing any one of us is going to do to stop Indonesia from building a new coal plant or end fracking in West Texas or stop whatever the fuck this is...

These are large scale socio-economic problems stemming from an industrial system that does not need to account for its waste byproducts. "Well, you should just believe that climate change is real but also believe its fixable" is the correct sentiment. But simple sentiment has no impact on policy.

I think that’s the defeatism they’re talking about here

I have spent my entire life hearing people in positions of authority talk about climate change and watching the institutions they lead ignore the impacts whenever a change in policy might detrimentally affect domestic economic growth rates.

That's why my heart is filled with doomerism. Even when we know, and even when we (superficially) acknowledge we can change the policy, the folks at the controls... don't do it.